Yeah, the Blade systems are nice and straightforward, and USB support means not having to track down a Sun keyboard & mouse or PS/2-to-Sun adapter. Unless you really want to play with the older systems, that's what I'd go for.

Picked up a couple fun bits of wood and string recently: teleclone_275.jpg This is a Telecaster clone from SX Guitars, who make shockingly good instruments for the bargain-basement price (okay, their electronics are generic and mediocre, but everyone replaces those anyway.) I picked it up because I ...

The whole high-res audio one annoys me too in general. Especially as the resolution of the audio makes little difference as long as music continues to be brickwalled and dynamically compressed to shit during the mastering process. High-resolution shit is still shit... Yeah, no kidding. At least it'...

This was down to the IME or I'll eat my hat. Start eating, it has something to do with speculative execution from userspace resulting in leaking information from more privileged protection rings and/or defeating KASLR : https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ Good thing I do...

I'm going to have to try Martian Successor Nadesico again, managed to stumble through the first disc then jumped onto something else. It's definitely worth sticking through to the end; it doesn't really get a proper ending so much as kick the can down the road for a movie series that ended prematur...

You cannot draw more energy from a system than you put into that system. People (those who got in early) are only making money out of Bitcoin because others are buying into it. "Profits" are only being made by the few, because further down the line many others will loose. (there is finite...